USB Printer problem in MS-DOS 1

[mlnrao]

Hi,
Iam unable to print to a USB printer from my MS-DOS console, iam getting "error printing to PRN" while trying to print from command prompt.

Thanks
LakshmiNarayana

 

[edfair]

there is no USB support in ms-dos. So prn has defaulted to the lpt:.
Ed Fair
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[Snickle]

As Ed say, no USB printers in DOS, requires Windows.

 

[Snickle]

As Ed says, no USB printers in DOS, requires Windows.

 

[jjdavis]

I have just encontered this issue. Is there not a work around?

 

[jjdavis]

Or does anyone know of text file viewing/printing program that supports ASCII format characters?

 

[bcastner]

There is not native support for USB in MS-DOS, but the Panasonic drivers do work. I just redid the links and descritpion on Tek-Tips recently: thread750-818421